Pregnant coach among those killed in lacrosse team bus crash

A coach who was six months pregnant and a bus driver were killed and 20 others were hurt when a bus carrying a women's lacrosse team from Seton Hill University near Pittsburgh crashed Saturday morning on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Carlisle, state police said.

Kristina Quigley, 30, a Baltimore native now of Greensburg, Westmoreland County, died, along with her unborn child, a boy, according the college.

She died after being flown by helicopter to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Turnpike spokesman Bill Capone said.

The Seton Hill website notes Quigley was in her second season with the team. A graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, she had a degree in secondary education and coached at her alma mater and at Erskine College in South Carolina before getting the job at Seton Hill, according to the website. The college said she is survived by her husband, Glenn, and young son, Gavin.

The Sentinel identified the bus driver as Anthony M. Guaetta, 61, of Johnstown, Cambria County. Capone said he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The bus, which was carrying 23 students and three coaches, was eastbound when it crashed at 8:55 a.m. at mile marker 227 in Cumberland County, state police at Highspire said. State police are investigating the cause of the crash, which involved no other vehicles.

Capone said the bus, operated by Mlaker Charter & Tours of Davidsville, Somerset County, left the road for unknown reasons about one mile east of the Carlisle exit. It jumped a guardrail and hit a tree head-on, he said.

A third passenger, whose name was been released, was flown to Hershey and 19 others were taken by ambulance to hospitals in Harrisburg and Carlisle.

"We don't believe they sustained any serious injuries," Capone said of the 19.

Police said the team was on its way to a game when the crash occurred. The Seton Hill website says the team was scheduled to play at Millersville University, near Lancaster, at 1 p.m.

"The reaction was just shock and numbness," Janet Kacskos, Millersville University spokeswoman, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "We've got counselors and ministers."

Of the 20 Seton Hill players listed on the school's website, seven are from Pennsylvania, including two from Montgomery County: Rachel Hilbert, a senior from Perkiomenville, who graduated from Boyertown High School; and Nicole Rossi, a sophomore from Collegeville, who graduated from Methacton High School.

Rossi was treated at Carlisle Regional Medical Center and released, said Alicia Williams, a hospital spokeswoman.

Four Seton Hill players are from Maryland, according to the website, and an assistant coach, Cristen Sanfilippoi, is from Baltimore.

Players also are from Ohio, New York, West Virginia, Minnesota, Texas, Georgia and Canada.

In a statement, Seton Hill said the university's dean of students was in Cumberland County to assist students and their families, and that counselors were available for students at the school.

Seton Hill, a Catholic college of about 2,500 students, is in Greensburg, Westmoreland County. A Mass for Quigley and Guaetta will be offered at 7 p.m. Sunday at a chapel on campus.